MaryKate and Samantha Language and Literature Mr. Turtola Wordplay Wordplay is making a piece of literature funny by playing with the words. Writers use wordplay to make their writing interesting and funny. Wordplay includes pun, lexicon, diction, syntax, and other forms as well. A pun is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar sounding words for a humorous effect on the reader. Diction is the choice of words the author uses and that can make the sentence very interesting and hard to make sense of it because of the words that the author had chosen. A syntax is the arrangement of words in a sentence. An author can arrange the words in a sentence so that it doesn’t make sense or for it to be funny to the reader. Repetition is another form of wordplay and it is used to emphasize a point the author is trying to make. Author’s use wordplay to make their writing funny and interesting. They also use it to make their writing hard for the reader to decipher what they are saying.
When an author uses wordplay he sometimes wants to make it easier for the reader to understand. But, in other cases the author wants to make their piece or writing hard to understand. When the author does that he or she creates a hidden meaning in their work which the reader has to figure out through the wordplay. On example of this type of writing is Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland which was written to make fun of British royalty and the Victorian lifestyle. In this novel Carroll uses wordplay to create different scenes and to create his hidden meaning and how he feels about the Victorian lifestyle. He uses all the types of wordplay to tell the story of Alice and how she found herself. He also uses it to voice his opinion about the British royalty. The wordplay gave this story a meaning that could only be found be reading carefully and understanding all the wordplay. Lewis Carroll is not the only person to use wordplay a lot of poets do as well. For example, personification is to give things human qualities. In Emily Dickinson’s poem The Train. It talks about what a train does but she gives it human qualitites, like in this line "and stop and feed itself at the tanks" trains can not feed themselves but in this poem she gave it the human quality of feeding. A lot for poets use wordplay to make their writing comical and to hide the deeper meaning of the poem.
In conclusion, writers use wordplay to help make their writing comical. They also use it to add clarity or to make it completely nonsensical and leave it to the reader to make sense of what message they are trying to get across. It makes the reader pay attention to what they are reading and to decipher the authors meaning behind the story. Wordplay is a great way to make fun of something and to have fun with the words that the author uses to tell a story.
Language and Literature
Mr. Turtola
Wordplay
Wordplay is making a piece of literature funny by playing with the words. Writers use wordplay to make their writing interesting and funny. Wordplay includes pun, lexicon, diction, syntax, and other forms as well. A pun is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar sounding words for a humorous effect on the reader. Diction is the choice of words the author uses and that can make the sentence very interesting and hard to make sense of it because of the words that the author had chosen. A syntax is the arrangement of words in a sentence. An author can arrange the words in a sentence so that it doesn’t make sense or for it to be funny to the reader. Repetition is another form of wordplay and it is used to emphasize a point the author is trying to make. Author’s use wordplay to make their writing funny and interesting. They also use it to make their writing hard for the reader to decipher what they are saying.
When an author uses wordplay he sometimes wants to make it easier for the reader to understand. But, in other cases the author wants to make their piece or writing hard to understand. When the author does that he or she creates a hidden meaning in their work which the reader has to figure out through the wordplay. On example of this type of writing is Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland which was written to make fun of British royalty and the Victorian lifestyle. In this novel Carroll uses wordplay to create different scenes and to create his hidden meaning and how he feels about the Victorian lifestyle. He uses all the types of wordplay to tell the story of Alice and how she found herself. He also uses it to voice his opinion about the British royalty. The wordplay gave this story a meaning that could only be found be reading carefully and understanding all the wordplay. Lewis Carroll is not the only person to use wordplay a lot of poets do as well. For example, personification is to give things human qualities. In Emily Dickinson’s poem The Train. It talks about what a train does but she gives it human qualitites, like in this line "and stop and feed itself at the tanks" trains can not feed themselves but in this poem she gave it the human quality of feeding. A lot for poets use wordplay to make their writing comical and to hide the deeper meaning of the poem.
In conclusion, writers use wordplay to help make their writing comical. They also use it to add clarity or to make it completely nonsensical and leave it to the reader to make sense of what message they are trying to get across. It makes the reader pay attention to what they are reading and to decipher the authors meaning behind the story. Wordplay is a great way to make fun of something and to have fun with the words that the author uses to tell a story.